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Unit 3: Elementary Spanish
In this Unit, we will focus on the themes of personal experience and family tradition.
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Goals
Introduction to adverbs
Click here for the Warm Up Activity
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In a previous lesson, we learned that illustrations give a plethora of information in fiction books. In non-fiction books, the picture can also give us hints about definition of words.
Using the pictures, please identify what kind of animal is underlined in the story.
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| Next, we'll read through the Featured Story for this lesson: Los Animales de la Ciudad. This is a nonfiction story about city animals. Try to practice information from previous lessons and determine the tense of the verbs within the story and identify nouns.
Featured Story: Los Animales de la Ciudad
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Recognition and Modelling
In this section, we'll begin a more focused practice on the use of adverbs. Adverbs, or verb descriptors, typically follow a uniform formula for creating -ly adverbs based on the root.
Generally, to create -ly adjectives, you take the root word followed by -mente.
For example:
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Adverb:
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Example:
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silenciosa [quiet]
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silenciosamente [quietly]
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El hombre camina silenciosamente en la biblioteca.
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rapido [quick]
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rapidamente [quickly]
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La profesora habla rapidamente.
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Adverb Activities
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Activity 1
To get more familiarity with adverbs, use these flash cards.
Activity 2
Make a list of the adverbs in Activity 1 and use them to create original sentences of your own.
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